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Fairy fort or ringfort in Monkstown

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated on a low ridge in undulating grassland with good views all around. Ringfort (WM012-157---) 200m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure annotated as ‘fort’ with a gravel pit immediately to SW and limekiln to N. Poorly preserved monument consisting of a curve in the field fence from SW-W-NW which preserves the enclosing bank of the levelled ringfort.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM012-158

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  • Photographer not named, clonkillgaa.ie
  • Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Picture: Ireland In Ruins
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Eric Jones, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Ronnie Nijboer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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